Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ entered Odisha at Birmitrapur in Sundargarh district from Jharkhand on Tuesday afternoon. He was given a rousing welcome by Congress supporters and all top State leaders of the party.
After entering Odisha on the Odisha-Jharkhand border, Rahul addressed a public meeting on a stage created for the purpose near Pattalkanah, two km from Birmitrapur.
Gandhi said, “I am here to stay for three days and am here to listen to the people of Odisha. For that, I have kept aside time.”
He said he has been listening to the people for seven to eight hours during the Yatra and addressing them for 15 minutes every day. He has started the Yatra in order to seek justice for the people. It is against “hatred and injustice”. It seeks justice for the unemployed, tribals, women, Dalits and youths.
“On the way to Odisha, I met a man in Jharkhand who has a land issue. That has been resolved after my intervention,” Gandhi told the gathering.
He said that during the Yatra he had also encountered certain complaints from people like corporate bodies taking land from farmers.
With him on the stage were all State leaders like PCC president Sarat Pattanayak, Suresh Routray and Tara Prasad Bahinipati and AICC general secretary in charge of Odisha Dr Ajoy Kumar.
Rahul will stay overnight at Rambahal, near Birmitrapur. On Wednesday, he will enter Rourkela and hold a road show near Panposh Chowk after a road show starting from Uditnagar.